| Re: Chinese Display Problem in IPTC caption field
We come from a chinese magazine, Now we are still using the 4.2.x windows version, because the 4.3.x windows verson can't display chinese correctly in IPTC caption field. And it can't display correctly in both 4.2.x and 4.3.x Mac version. We hope that your team can fix this problem in the coming 4.4 version.
There is not enough time to fix this issue for version 4.4.
The IPTC specification does not allow for characters outside the range of 0-127. Chinese characters can be represented using multi-byte character sequences but this is not specified in the IPTC standard. Version 4.3 mostly enforces this, but allows the entire MacRoman character set to be used. This was done to allow captions written on the two platforms to be interchangeable.
To truly fix your problem would be to allow full Unicode to be used in captions, which can be represented in the UTF-8 encoding inside XMP data which can also be embedded into most file types. By doing this, almost any language can be used including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
We have plans to address this in the future, but not in any 4.4.x release.
If you must enter Chinese into your captions, you will have to stick with 4.2.x, but understand that this type of captioning will likely not work in other apps, including future versions of Photo Mechanic.
I wish the IPTC people had just specified that UTF-8 encoding be used in the original IPTC specification and then none of this would have been an issue.
Sorry for the bad news,
-Kirk
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